“Fanboying to the extreme”: Vanity Fair writer is ready for Beto O’Rourke … President Beto O’Rourke, that is

Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who was elected to Congress in 2012 and is now running against Sen. Ted Cruz for the Senate, is being called an Obama-like potential challenger to Donald Trump for president. Via Vanity Fair’s Peter Hamby:

Whether he wins or loses his race—and yes, even if he loses—O’Rourke should be included in every conversation about the 2020 Democratic primary. That’s because, unlike most of the paint-by-numbers politicians in his party, O’Rourke actually understands how politics should be conducted in the Donald Trump era: authentic, full of energy, stripped of consultant-driven sterility, and waged at all times with a social-media-primed video screen in mind.

But Beto is the flavor of the month so we expect more of this, not less: